• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Mix non HDV stuff and HDV footage on FCP 7

  Posted by Lahoe Ku on August 18, 2011 at 7:49 pm

  Hi I have a question.
  I’m editing an interview shot by HDV using FCP 7.
  I want to insert various old materials on that.
  The materials are not HDV so I converted them using MPEG.
  I wonder if there is the best way to keep their ratio and work with them on HDV sequence without rendering everytime.

  Everest Mokaeff replied 15 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  August 18, 2011 at 10:26 pm

  Convert all to prores.

  You can bring in the HDV to prores on ingest.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta LLC
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  Everest Mokaeff

  August 18, 2011 at 10:35 pm

  Try to use ProRes codecs for all editing purposes unless you have to work w/ files coming straight from camera. Conventional wisdom is to capture HDV as is but change sequence codec to ProRes. It’s more productive had you to mix video w/ different resolution if they’d all ProRes files.

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